Reading Pictures in Company (part of doing together 24)
Reading Pictures in Company
Workshop with Andrew Southall as part of doing together 24
Thursday 4 April and Friday 5 April 2024
The idea of this workshop was to bring an image to share and reflect upon - this might be a photograph, a speculative imaginative image, or a well known image. Participants were instructed to walk in pairs in or around the building and describe their picture to their partner in their own words, adding detail in the areas they found most relevant and pertinent - without sharing a visual image. Participants were then instructed to write a synopsis of the descriptions in the form of a few words/sentences.
This text formed the instructions for an AI generated image.
At the end of the workshop, the two visual outcomes and the texts were shared as translations across word and image.
doing together 24
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in collaboration with Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Music and Performing Arts.
Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.
Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.
